santa ana drags 1953 ish and the shifters cc

http://kustomimaging.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/scans-from-dragmaster/

sorry for the link but ya should see these and the pics are way better than on here i still can't figure it out..


not shifters that was a typo...... its shafters cc

 

Not Santa Ana----Maybe Paradise Mesa, San Diego in 1953.
Blimp hangers were always visible at Santa Ana.

 

yup

 

Some of those old cars even looked scary to drive back then.

I guess things to get better with time and new idea's

Jimbo

 

it was what i wads told , thanks for the correction....

 

The flame job on the two yellow cars is the coolest i've ever seen! Thanks for sharing!

 

They are Paradise Mesa, never seen these before, wonder if the shots feature Dode Martin, one of the original Dragmaster guys, since the tag reads "Dode?" Interesting shot of the Chrisman dragster, numbered "52" instead of "25"...think that the purple car is Dode Martin's dragster, one of the first....

 

The color photos are at Paradise Mesa in 1951. In one photo my '41 Hudson sedan and Olds tow car can be seen in the background. A second photo shows John Wolf's So-Cal Speed Shop '36 coupe and a San Diego area '37 Ford sedan that I raced in class. He won, my "excuse" (we always need an excuse) was the '37 was much lighter than my sedan. This was before weight was used for the classes.
It is always fun to see these old photos.
Don www.montgomeryhotrodbooks.com